I’m pulling JSON from an API, converting the string to the XML representation, and storing part of the resulting XML into BaseX. The problem is, I can’t get the xmlns namespace declaration to stick to the XML excerpt once it’s saved to BaseX. It seems to work when I display the unstored excerpt.

xquery version "3.1";

(: NAMESPACES :)

declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";

declare namespace db="http://basex.org/modules/db";

declare namespace output="http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare namespace update="http://basex.org/modules/update";

(: OPTIONS :)

declare option db:chop 'false';

declare option db:stripns 'false';

declare option output:indent 'yes';

declare option output:method 'xml';

(: MAIN QUERY :)

let $uri :=

"https://wwp.northeastern.edu/exist/rest/db/exhibits/xquery/people.xquery?file=caldwell.tenthmuse.xml"

let $full := json-to-xml(unparsed-text($uri))

let $snippet := $full/fn:array/fn:map[1]

let $workaround :=

<map xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">{ $snippet/* }</map>

return (

db:create("test-ns",

($full, $snippet, $workaround),

("full.xml", "snippet.xml", "workaround.xml")),

update:output(($snippet, $workaround))

)

Thanks for your time!